SANTA CRUZ -- Maurice Ainsworth's alleged accomplice in a 2009 home invasion testified Thursday that he and Ainsworth plotted to rob the Santa Cruz Mountains home, tie up the residents and obtain their bank account information.

Jyler Raines, 23, said that in March 2009, Ainsworth told him about a home that contained guns and safes that he wanted the pair to burglarize. He said he wasn't completely OK with the plan but he went along with it because he didn't want to seem like less of a man or like someone who didn't stick with their word.

"I blocked out my morals," said Raines, a former Harbor High School football player. "I pushed a lot of the bad stuff that would come from it out of my mind and just thought of the good."

Raines said he planned to use the stolen bounty to get his own apartment and pay for college.

Ainsworth, 26, is on trial for 55 counts stemming from the home invasion and his subsequent escape from custody in 2010. His defense attorneys have disputed that Ainsworth was Raines' partner in the home invasion, though they don't dispute the escape.

Raines, who has pleaded guilty for his role in the robbery, on Thursday described the efforts he and Ainsworth took to cover their tracks at the Summit-area home. They drank from cartons of juice in the home's refrigerator without putting their mouths to them, and urinated in the bathroom sink with the faucet running, he said. Afterward, they'd use bleach to rinse out the sink. They also wore masks and gloves, and tried to speak "as if we were Hispanic" to conceal their voices, he said.

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No one was home when they arrived, so they found the family's guns, loaded them and waited for the residents to return. He testified about wrestling with the homeowner over the gun before he and Ainsworth tied up and blindfolded the man.

Ainsworth forced the woman to tie up the couple's young son, who was then placed into a loft area, Raines said. They then tied up the wife and blindfolded her, he testified.

He said he didn't recall hearing threats to kill the family, though the homeowners previously testified that they were repeatedly told they would be killed if they didn't turn over their bank account information and PIN numbers.

Raines and Ainsworth were arrested just hours after the home invasion when deputies say they tried to ditched the stolen car they'd driven to the victims' home.